Julia Gillard's new Adelaide home
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Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard looks set to move to an Adelaide beachside suburb after a buyer’s agent signed a contract for a four bedroom house in recent days.
Adelaide real estate agent Phil Harris told InDaily this morning: “I cannot confirm or deny, but yes. What I can say is that Julia herself hasn’t signed the contract.”
Asked if he had shown Gillard through the house, Harris said “I can’t say. I’m not able to make any comment.”
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The real estate industry was abuzz this morning with news that Gillard had used a buyer’s agent to sign up for the 1920’s bungalow advertised at around $1.8 million.
It sold in 2001 for $490,000 and again in 2008 for an undisclosed price.
Gillard’s electorate office said yesterday she would not be making any media comment.
She has not responded to emails.
InDaily told Gillard’s staff and again via email that we intended to run a story on her move to Adelaide and that she had bought a specific house.
It was reported in July that the woman who became Australia’s first female Prime Minister, only to be rolled by her predecessor Kevin Rudd, would be moving back to Adelaide to be closer to her mother, Moira, and her sister, Alison.
Gillard is living in her Altona house in Melbourne’s south-west having moved out of The Lodge shortly after being deposed.
Gillard lost her father, John Gillard, late in 2012.
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